Word: belief
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Exams do not foster original research and discovery, he said. "Highest intellectual achievement does not come from a military discipline, but from the student's own belief in the importance of his work...
...importance of world trade and ECA to TIME Inc. is obvious: TLI is founded on the belief that the exchange of news and goods between America and the rest of the world is for the benefit of all concerned, and (exemplifying that point) the overseas editions of TIME and LIFE International carry advertising sold separately from TIME Inc.'s U.S. edition...
...That 71% think of God as their judge, meting out rewards or punishments for their actions. Seventy-three percent professed belief in some kind of after life ("I believe the spirit goes to heaven and will see members of his family later"; "I suppose there is something-won't be gold streets, though"). Of those who said that they believe in heaven, more than three-fifths coolly admitted that they expect to go there...
...enough humor to keep it going, and not too much of anything-not too much of the supernatural to be unbelievable, not too much wit to tax the reader's attention, not too much irony to make it too involved, not too much skepticism or too much belief...
...appeal of the first proposal to many comes from the belief that grateful remembrance of the Harvard men who gave their lives for their country should have the simplest possible expression, dissociated from any consideration other than pure sentiment. It would be, so to speak, a shrine, set somewhat apart from dust and clamor of daily life, but in an accessible place where the thoughts evoked by the memorial would occupy the observer's mind, undisturbed by the intrusion of extraneous interests, however important or useful...